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Is this an exposure exercise from your therapist? Of it is, asking for reassurance here makes the ERP exercise pointless. Response prevention is equally if not more important than the exposure. Sit with the uncertainty about what all of those feelings may or may not mean. If not, it sounds to me like what you’re doing is a pretty torturous compulsions: testing yourself with pictures to see if you have a reaction. And it’s one that will never give you the answer you want or reassure you in any lasting way. It’s just feeding the obsession and I’d encourage you to stop.
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That's ocd for you... Ocd will do anything to "accuse" you of what your obsession suggests, to go so far even to make you feel fake arousal/feelings/thoughts /mental images just to scare you even more than you already are.
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It's most likely because your anxious you might find them attractive
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I’ve gone down that route and it doesn’t help. My heart raced, but not erection..eventually got bored... But that won’t be good enough..you’ll have to test yourself more and more. Just like “pureOlife” says..it’s just feeding your obsession. It’s better to just not go there at all and live your life...your sexuality will be clear just by living...you didn’t have to focus this hard to figure out you were straight right?
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I know it’s not attraction, because the feeling is absolutely horrible. It’s that “what if” that gets me.
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If** it is
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Just dont stress about it
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Does anyone else struggle with this? I get a sense of dread and then I feel like the need to find the answer. For me it’s about like sexual reproduction or like some other taboo topic. Especially anything reproductive related to children or pets. I feel so awful after researching. I don’t know if the compulsion is to research or to ruminate about my intentions after researching. I have a hard time understanding why this happens I’m assuming it a question of morality? Like “what does this say about me if I wondered this and looked into it?” Does anyone relate to this?
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Am I the only one who experiences this, or is it more common than I think? Sometimes, I find myself imagining what a couple’s sex life might look like, or what a person’s body might be like. I think it’s driven by curiosity, and I focus on it for a few seconds. When it comes to family members, teenagers, or anyone I feel uncomfortable imagining in this way, I used to be able to shake it off as an intrusive thought. But lately, I can’t seem to let go of it anymore. I’ve become used to the anxiety, but I’m stuck questioning what this means about me, especially since I’ve taken time to think about it. This is really stressing me out because I feel like a pervert. I’m hoping that this is something more common than I realize and that OCD is just distorting something. I feel like I really need some insight here. Any advice?
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Does anyone else when they have the thoughts, they feel against it, but they still get arousal or tenglings sensations in the groinal area? Because this is what I experienced today and I feel like crap. This is going to be very triggering for a lot of you, but there are a lot of times that I notice things from kids. For example, there is a thirteen year old kid who looks very developed for her age, and I take notice of (and this already sounds creepy to me) her chest. Today with my thoughts, I imagined as if I were touching it, and although I usually "no no or "I don't want to do that", she is a kid, etc., I still get responses in my groinal area, and It felt very real. Even now, I feel as though I am faking it, even though I groan 😮💨 from it, and feel as though I am a fraud. Does anyone relate?
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